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Mitigation scenarios - Passivating satellites and rocket bodies

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Title Mitigation scenarios - Passivating satellites and rocket bodies

Released 10/04/2008 4:37 pm

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ESA

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To prevent the explosion of rocket upper stages, they must be ‘passivated’ after payload separation. Upper stages of US Delta rockets, for instance, perform an idle burn, while European Ariane and Japanese H-1 stages vent the remaining propellants. Batteries should be discharged and pyro devices deactivated at mission completion.